After the meal, maidservants once again brought in spiritual fruits.
After such thorough hospitality, Chu Ge felt both physically and mentally refreshed. It was clear that Shui Qianrou had made full preparations to entertain him, the personal disciple of the Sacred Lord.
In just half a day, Chu Ge had already grown familiar with the three women, and the foundation of their relationship had begun to take shape.
He had also gained a deeper understanding of them.
Shui Qianrou hailed from the Shui Clan, a cultivation family of considerable standing.
Though it could not compare with an immortal force like Taihuang, its scale was far from small, and it had produced more than one powerhouse of the Eighth Heaven realm over the generations.
Members of the Shui Clan had cultivated at Taihuang for generations, and from time to time, clan members even served as elders within the sect.
By the time it came to Shui Qianrou, she had risen to independently govern an entire peak as its Peak Master, and moreover held the crucial post of Pavilion Master of the Spirit Medicine Pavilion.
She herself had achieved the Great Power realm at barely over a hundred years of age, and in addition possessed profoundly deep alchemical attainments.
She was of the same generation as Luo Huangjun and Dantai Jinglian, though somewhat younger, and her relationship with both of them was quite good.
Among the most outstanding figures of Taihuang Sacred Land a hundred years ago, Shui Qianrou had been one of them.
Over the past thousand years, the Shui Clan had maintained steady growth, and in Shui Qianrou's generation, there were even signs of imminent soaring ascent.
As for the Lu sisters, they too were born into a cultivation family. The Lu Clan, in both strength and scale, was nearly on par with the Shui Clan.
However, compared to the Shui Clan, which was steadily advancing with faint signs of takeoff, the Lu Clan had shown signs of decline in recent years.
For several hundred years now, the clan had not produced a single Eighth Heaven realm venerable to preside over it.
When the topic turned to their family, both sisters grew somewhat downcast, faint traces of sorrow surfacing in their expressions.
Clearly, it was not merely the decline of the family—there had to be deeper reasons hidden beneath.
Chu Ge did not probe further. After all, today was only their first real meeting; once they became closer in the future, the two would naturally not hesitate to bare their hearts.
As the afternoon arrived, it was finally time for the true purpose of Chu Ge's visit today.
Following Shui Qianrou, the two entered a spacious room, and Chu Ge was immediately greeted by a dense fragrance of pills.
It was clearly Shui Qianrou's usual alchemy chamber.
Shui Qianrou first handed Chu Ge a storage ring.
"Inside this ring are the rewards granted to you by the Sacred Land. From the First Heaven to the Sixth Heaven, all types of pills you may need are contained within."
"However, after learning that you had already broken into the Third Heaven realm early, I took it upon myself to refine some additional pills for realms above the Third Heaven as well."
Shui Qianrou said this with a smile.
Chu Ge sent a strand of his divine sense into the storage ring.
At once, he saw rows of neatly arranged bottles and jars. Inside each rested pills of varying sizes, all crystal-clear, with radiant light hidden within.
Upon closer inspection, many of the pills even bore mysterious, profound patterns upon their surface.
These patterned pills—whether in clarity or the brilliance concealed within—far surpassed the others.
Perfect-grade pills!
Every single bottle contained at least supreme-grade pills, and there were not a few that had reached perfect quality!
Earlier, Su Lingyuan had told him that the pills awarded by the Sacred Land were usually of middle or upper quality, with supreme-grade being quite rare.
Yet today, what lay before Chu Ge was entirely beyond his expectations—no upper-grade at all, only supreme-grade and perfect-grade!
In an instant, Chu Ge grasped Shui Qianrou's intentions.
Though this was under the Sacred Land's directive, Shui Qianrou had no need to go to such lengths. She could easily have refined a batch of middle- and upper-grade pills as had been done in the past.
Even if, considering Chu Ge's identity and his contributions, she put in a bit more effort and refined upper-grade and some supreme-grade pills, that alone would already have been more than sincere enough.
But what she had delivered… was perfection.